On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, J. D. Kent wrote:
> After two days of playing around, and with some helpful hints from
> Lawson Whitney, I was finally able to get my PPP connection up and
> running.
>
> <insert loud applause here>
>
> It turns out that the information in the HOWTO and what I had in front
> of me was just enough different that it was confusing. But, happily, I
> got it. Thanks Lawson.
>
> Now on to the next problem. Since I have a very minimal system running
> on a tiny hard drive, there is no room to even consider X, so I am
> running just command line. Which is fine, I think, I get to understand
> the commands better. Because of this I am using PINE for e-mail and
> newsgroups. Here is the system info:
>
> Slackware 3.1.0
> Linux kernel 2.0.27
> PPP 2.2.0
> PINE 3.95
>
> I can send mail. I can read and send to newsgroups. But I can't get my
> mail. The incoming mail server is POP3. I tried setting the inbox-path
> to {pop.froggernet.com}INBOX. But this gives me an error that reads
IMAP
> server disconnection. I talked to the people at my ISP and understand
> now that this is the problem, because the mail server is POP and PINE
is
> trying to go through IMAP.
>
> Obvious question is, can I get there from here? Is there a way of
> setting up PINE to get the mail from the POP3 server rather than trying
> to go through IMAP?
Yes and no. I think pine won't fetch mail for you using any other
protocol, but you can run (fetchmail and some mail delivery agent), or
popclient to retrieve the mail from your server and place it in a
mailbox, then read and reply to it with pine. popclient looks like it
might be easier to set up. I hope you installed all the man pages. :-)
>
> Also, is there a PINE newsgroup and/or mail list?
>
man pine mentions comp.mail.pine :-)
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
> --
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
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